The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-10-15
Tnc NcNt Campaign.

The Cthcial heads OF me rCpuplC6n
national party arr i'll a quandry, no
less ssregards q leader thsu Tor an
issue. Both are leading and pressing
nccns sites, aud while the former eau
be had a' the simple footing ota horn,
the other i given up to be q matter
of difficulty Thanks to the good be.
havior Of the south for long series
of years The bloody shirt Is gradually
wearing TO q mere trazZle, aud as the
orrihamme OF republican victory it is
becoming decidedly stale. The sim
pie fact is it won't work any more |
snd the result will have to be accept
ed whether or no. Every now and
then some negro runs up against a
double bsrreled shotgun or ram
psut siX-shooter and the fact is tele.
grsph.d all over the country, chapters
and chapters are written tor the pa
pers but TO no good end. The people
smile and 90 on their way all uncon-
-cioUs that an Issue was intended in
the matter, The recent visit of the
president to st. Louis and the recep-
ton rendered him there by the people
was twisted and distorted by the pa
triotic republican papers but do what
| they could the "rebcl yell" sounded
very much as did the loyal huzza, and
| the only discontinue was in the in.
glorious falling back of the Grand
Army ofthe Republic before the first
citizen of the nation and his graceful
wife. This citizen and graceful wife
are democrats and the grand
army is republican from the comman
dcr-in-chief to the color sergeant
The bloody shirt wouldn't wave be.
tween them worth cent. The
issue must be Abandoned There
is All effort On the part OF
the republican leaders TO enlist
tho opponents of anarchy un-
der their partisan banner, but that
dreadful Illinois supreme court which
refused to reopen the returns of the
lower court is democratic body, and
so 1t comes that even this apple turns
to ashes on the lips of the leaders
The imminency of panic and the
stringency of the money market gen
orally, come nearest to beng an issue
gives them the nearest sembancc to
q charge of incapacity and inetiicien
cy, but tie bald tact remains that O.
least two serious panics have resulted
from similar causes under republi.
can administrations, and the issue, il
it.were adopted, would result only il
the pot calling the kettle black sort G
campaign, in which repubicanisn
would have more to lose than it coulC
possibly gain. SO that wont work
The excess of money in the United
States treasury and the scarcity il
circulation comes from the rate o
: taxation maintained. So the tarii
won't answer them for all issue.
All that can be done is to choos
= between Sherman and Blaine d
5 the republican choice of mai
to front Grover Cleveland.
must therefore be mer
personal conflict, in which IN
best man will win. This is deaf
open .and-shut Cleveland victory, be
cause neither Sherman nor Blaine cal
- stand before Cleveland single mo
f meut. The only hope then is to get
J man with q big name, and q small per
sousl identity, such a Bob Lincoln Q
Fred Grant, and run him on what h
might turn out to be, rather than TO
; what he is. Indeed this may turi
out to be the policy finally adopted
Who knows: But il it is we, in TIL
} utlitarian age, can promise Grove
} Cleveland nea: Hytle walk ovel
J The bloody shirt has gone, and gon
with It hiss all the memory Of wa
preferences or inherited merit Is
p pecl4lly that merit or the memory c
1t rather, which mounted above tn
horizon during the days when Amer
lean citizens we're cutting each other
thrlsts
We like the personal racket best, i
2 this juacturc, and hope to see ther
b. settle down on it finally. rhs; mean
: victory, a. well as a rest time for tn
I democratic reserves.